[ad_1] After two failed attempts, NASA is targeting a September 27 launch date for its Artemis I mission. The space agency is also reviewing a potential backup launch window option for October 2. On September 27, the launch window opens at 11.37 AM EDT (9.07 PM IST). Ahead of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket […]
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[ad_1] If all goes as hoped, NASA’s giant next-generation moon rocket SLS will blast off from the Kennedy Space Centre in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on September 3 afternoon If all goes as hoped, NASA’s giant next-generation moon rocket SLS will blast off from the Kennedy Space Centre in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on September 3 afternoon […]
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[ad_1] NASA aims to make a second attempt to launch its giant next-generation moon rocket on Saturday, Sept. 3, five days after a pair of technical issues foiled an initial try at getting the spacecraft off the ground for the first time, agency officials said on Tuesday. But prospects for success on Saturday appeared clouded […]
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[ad_1] 2030 will be the decade to watch for long-term settlement of the moon, and potentially Mars as well. But it all starts now, with the launch of Artemis I on August 29. Artemis I is an uncrewed test mission, but it’s the first step toward putting humans back on the moon since the 1972 […]
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[ad_1] “We are going.” That is the catchphrase that NASA is using in the lead-up to the debut flight of its new moon rocket, which could launch as early as Monday at 8:33 a.m. Eastern time. It is a phrase repeated by agency officials, added as a hashtag on social media postings and proclaimed on […]
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[ad_1] Almost fifty years after the Apollo mission, NASA is gearing up to return humanity to the Moon with its Artemis program. Artemis I, an uncrewed mission that is the first in a series of increasingly complex missions, is scheduled for launch on August 29 and will test the agency’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket […]
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[ad_1] A half century after the end of NASA’s Apollo era, the U.S. space agency’s long-anticipated bid to return astronauts to the moon’s surface remains at least three years away, with much of the necessary hardware still on the drawing board. But NASA aims to take a giant leap in its renewed lunar ambitions with […]
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[ad_1] Ahead of its launch, NASA is rolling out the Artemis 1 spacecraft to the Launch Complex 39B at the agency’s Kennedy Space Centre in Florida. At around 10 PM on August 16 (7.30 AM IST on August 17), the “crawler-transporter” began the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft’s approximately six and a […]
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[ad_1] On the 53rd anniversary of the Apollo 11 lunar landing, NASA announced Wednesday it’s shooting for a late August launch of its giant, new moon rocket. (Sign up to our Technology newsletter, Today’s Cache, for insights on emerging themes at the intersection of technology, business and policy. Click here to subscribe for free.) NASA will attempt […]
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